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Top 10 richest people in Crypto – Who made the MOST?

The list might surprise you a little bit. First mention is Chris Larssen, the former CEO of Ripple. His net worth is valued at 7.5-8 billion USD with the age of 27. He personally owns 5.2 billion XRPs as a founder. These numbers are amazing.

Joseph Lubin comes in second with a net worth of 1-5 billion USD. Co-Founder of Ethereum and founder of Consensus. Toronto native, he is not new to the technology scene with the age of 53. The most surprising part is that there are more Ethereum co-founders who are richer than the most well-known Ethereum figure – Vitalik Buterin. A lot of people don’t realize that Vitalik is not the one and only person who did the groundwork for Ethereum. Many people worked on the project, and some of them are better holders than Vitalik. Joseph Lubin is one of them certainly.

ChengPeng Zhao arrives in third place. Ceo of Binance with a net worth of 1.1-2 billion USD. What is amazing is that the whole Binance exchange venture is just 7 months old and it is constantly on the top of the volume rankings.

Another mention should be the Winklevoss twins. That name does ring a bill, doesn’t it? That is right, they were the ones suing Mark Zuckerberg for the idea and concept behind Facebook. They settled in the end and invested the money they got from Mark in to Bitcoin. Clearly, it was a glorious idea, as they are worth now around 1.1 billion USD. Still very far behind Zuckerberg though, but nothing to be ashamed of.

Anthony Di Iorio, CO-founder of Ethereum and founder of Jaxx and Decentral. Age 34, worth about 750 million USD.

Michael Novogratz. Another name we might find familiar as he is CEO of Galaxy Digital. He openly claims that his net worth is between 650 million USD and 1 billion USD.

Brian Armstrong is only 35 years old and is the CEO of Coinbase, one of the biggest exchanges in the world. He also worth more than 1 billion USD. Coinbase has acquired several rounds of funding in the past, they were between 75 and 106 million USD per round.

Brendan Blumer, worth about half a million USD, is also the CEO of Block.one. He is operating from Honk-Kong and pulled the world’s biggest token sales worth 1 billion USD that was has raised for EOS.

Dan Larimer, worth between 6-700 million USD, is the CTO of Block.one. He has co-funded three block chain platforms, including the above mentioned EOS and also Steem.it and Bitshares.

The list could go on, but we mentioned the most prominent ones. Forbes has publicized a comprehensive list, that is worth reading if you want to get the full picture.

We like to add that these figures were gained by Forbes with the help of the disclosure of those involved. It’s easy to speculate that some or most of these individuals also own other assets, particularly cryptocurrencies, that are stashed away.

Cryptoweekly, a cryptocurrency newsletter released a similar list worth reading. It is called “The top 100 most influential people in the crypto”. The list is not based on net worth, but by the technological contributions that the given person made in the crypto world. There you will also find some influential names that you might be missing from among the richest ones. These include names like Charlie Lee, founder of Litecoin, or Roger Ver, the father of Bitcoin Cash.